Insights from Mizuho Americas
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Category: Community
In pursuit of transformation: The Pursuit transformation company
Pursuit is an innovative social impact organization focusing on closing the prosperity gap in America, transforming the lives of New Yorkers from low-income backgrounds through its no-cost engineering training programs. Mizuho is proud to partner with Pursuit to further accelerate and support the hundreds of young adults in their career and professional development.
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Category: Community
Henry Street: Creating green jobs and bright futures on the Lower East Side
For nearly 130 years, Henry Street Settlement has been opening doors for Lower East Side residents and New Yorkers, providing a wealth of resources including career readiness training, social services, arts, health care and other programs. As a partner, Mizuho is proud to support Henry Street’s Building Automation Systems Training, a transformative program with a focus on commercial building systems that create a healthier and eco-friendly environment.
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Category: Research
Industrial REITs: A tale of 300 markets
Throughout much of the pandemic, industrial REITs experienced a boom as ecommerce drove demand for warehouse space. At least until last year, when major companies paused growth. Today, industrial REITs look solid once more, but many REITs investors see big variations among geographic sub-markets. Vikram Malhotra, Senior REITs Equity Research Analyst, dissects why the time is now for a renewed focus on large, well-diversified industrial REITs.
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Category: Trends
Mizuho Rating Agency Energy Panel Discussions 2023: Navigating the economic and geopolitical crosscurrents
Last month, Mizuho was excited to host our Fifth Annual Rating Agency Energy Panel Discussions at the Calgary Petroleum Club. The event once again featured a lineup of analysts from S&P, Moody’s, Fitch and DBRS Morningstar focused on the Canadian energy sector across an upstream panel, a midstream panel and a one-on-one discussion with a leading expert from Moody’s on Environmental, Social and Governance considerations in the rating process.
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Category: Expert Opinions
Capital Markets Q1 2023 Perspectives
What’s happening on Wall Street? What can we expect moving forward? Our DCM experts discuss the trends affecting the capital markets.
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Category: Expert Opinions
Energy investing: shale 3.0 is creating opportunities to invest in energy despite volatile commodity prices
With commodity prices predicted to ebb and flow in the coming months, energy investors may need to be more selective and search for new opportunities. Against the challenging backdrop, Nitin Kumar, Senior U.S. Energy Analyst, discusses how shale producers can offer investors unique investment opportunities, presenting capital discipline, a commitment to rewarding shareholders, and good visibility into inventory.
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Category: Community
The Grace Institute: moving women forward
Grace Institute has worked for nearly 125 years to empower women in New York City to achieve employment and economic self-sufficiency. In partnership with Grace Institute, Mizuho has helped further strengthen the knowledge these women have gained, through professional workshops and resources aimed at developing their skills and accelerating their careers.
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Category: Trends
Key themes from SFVegas 2023
All eyes were on the consumer at this year’s Structured Finance Association SFVegas Conference, where ABS investors probed near- and non-prime originators on how they are faring in light of increased cost of funds and compressing margins in an environment with limited ability to increase collateral APRs. Richard Burke, Co-Head of Securitized Products Origination, Mizuho Americas, provides the key takeaways.
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Category: Community
Wall Street Bound: Not just preparation, but access to Wall Street for young people of color
Wall Street Bound is quickly emerging as a source to find well-trained talent from unexpected places, helping create avenues of opportunity on Wall Street for Black and Brown students. Read more about Mizuho's support of this emerging nonprofit.